THOSE WHO MAKE TOMORROW

(Akira Kurosawa, 1946)

Exceptional avant-garde works that transform through beauty, wit and wonder.

Civilized Landscapes | directed by Taryn Ward, USA, 1:04The evolution of corporation culture and its overwhelming presence on contemporary life.

Dream Phone | directed by Kendra Lohr, USA, 3:43Who — who — who's got a crush on you! Was it all a dream?#NewMavericks

Royal Jelly | directed by Stephanie Burbano, Canada, 9:53A vivid exploration of drag brought about by experimentation and a unique insight into life.#PinkPeach

165708 | directed by Josephine Massarella, Canada, 16:37A woman looks out from the shoreline, acting as a point of departure to disparate yet interconnected sequences, prompting the viewer to engage in a structurally unique mode of inquiry and experience.#NewMavericks

Because I Love You | directed by Yu-Ting Cheng, USA, 4:01Nothing else matters other then love.#NewMavericks#PinkPeach

Farewell Transmission | directed by Mike Rollo, Canada, 14:05Equal parts indexical record of the demolition of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s CBK Transmitter Station in 2015 and subjective response to the residual media documenting the event.

gutterball | directed by Sam Gurry, USA, 1:07I was in a bowling league in third grade where I routinely rolled my ball into the next lane and ate a lot of cheese fries.#NewMavericks

Down Escalation | directed by Shunsaku Hayashi, Japan, 7:20Falling down, it feels ecdysone is filling up its body. Delving into the deeper layers of itself, the flesh is melted down in the shell until the form is no longer.

SDtoHDuprezMaxV2_009.mp4 | directed by Anna Spence, USA, 4:10Booted from the limelight, Max Headroom now roves the video signal on the search for his life's meaning.#Georgia

Edge of Alchemy | directed by Stacey Steers, USA, 19:00Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor, delicately lifted from their early silent films, are cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story amid a contemporary undercurrent of hive collapse.#NewMavericks